Movies (fiction) by Category

10 c2004

10: A documentary-style film paints a portrait of contemporary Iran, as seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. Her journey is comprised of ten conversations with various passengers -- including her young son, her sister, an old woman, a hitchhiking prostitute, and a jilted bride. Abbas Kiarostami : 10 on Ten: In this documentary, Kiarostami gives an in-depth interview that is a seminar on Kiarostami-style film making. 1 videodisc (90 min.)

MEDIA 10-5226

 

Afsaid Offside  2007

During the 2006 Iran-Bahrain match, the Tehran soccer stadium roars with 100,000 cheering men and, officially, no women. According to Islamic custom, women are not permitted to watch or participate in men's sports. Many of the ambitious young female fans who manage to sneak into the arena are caught and sent to a holding pen, guarded by male soldiers their own age. Duty makes these young men and women adversaries, but duty can't overcome their shared dreams, their mutual attraction, and ultimately their overriding sense of national pride and humanity. 1 videodisc (92 min.)

MEDIA 10-3959

 

Al Quds fi yawm akhar Jerusalem, another day : Rana's wedding 2007

Bero Beyer, George Ibrahim, Hany Abu-Assad , Liyanah Badr, Ihab Lamey, Clara Khoury , Augustus Film (Firm), and Typecast Films (Firm)

A Palestinian girl has only 10 hours to both find and marry her boyfriend in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank. The uncertainty of her father's approval adds further difficulty. 1 videodisc (86 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2624

 

Amreeka 2009

Cherien Dabis, Christina Piovesan, Paul Barkin, Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass, Alia Shawkat, Joseph Ziegler, Yussuf Abu-Warda, Virgil Films (Firm), National Geographic Entertainment (Firm), Imagenation Abu Dhabi (Firm), Levantine Entertainment (Firm), and First Generation Films

Muna Farah, a Palestinian single mom, struggles to maintain her optimistic spirit in the daily grind of intimidating West Bank checkpoints, the constant nagging of a controlling mother, and the haunting shadows of a failed marriage. Everything changes one day when she receives a letter informing her that her family has been granted a U.S. green card, and she moves with her teenage son to small town Illinois. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-2064

 

Avivah ahuvati Aviva my love 2009, 2006

Eitan Evan, Shemi Zarhin, Assi Levy, Rotem Abuhav, Sasson Gabay, Dror Keren, Levana Finkelstein, Nati Ravitz, United King Films (Firm), Metro Communications (Firm), Evanstone Films, and Sisu Home Entertainment, Inc

Aviva is a poor cook at a local Tiberias hotel whose big dream is about to come true. Through her sister, Anita, she meets Oded, a famous write who promises he'll make Aviva a great writer too. But Aviva's big break starts to affect her family, and not necessarily in a good way. Aviva's future begins to alternate between despair and hope. 1 videodisc (102 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3371

 

Bamako 2007

Abderrahmane Sissako, Denis Freyd, Aďssa Maďga, Tiécoura Traoré, Hélčne Diarra, Habib Dembélé, Djénéba Koné, Aďssata Tall Sall, Danny Glover, Archipel 33 (Firm), Chinguitty Films (Firm), Mali Images (Firm), ARTE France, Louverture Films (Firm), and New Yorker Video (Firm)

Melé, a bar singer, and her unemployed husband Chaka are on the verge of breaking up. In the courtyard of the house they share with other families in Bamako, the capital city of Mali, African civil society representatives have taken proceedings against such international financial institutions as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, whom they blame for Africa's woes. As numerous trial witnesses air bracing indictments against the multinational economic machinery that haunts them, life in the courtyard presses forward. 1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2793

 

Banu-yi Urdibihisht The May lady 2003?

Rakhshan Bani I`timad, Minoo Farshchi, Mani Kasraian, Golab Adineh, Atifah Rizavi, and Iranian Movies (Firm)

A successful documentary filmmaker lives with her teenage son. Her family life is beset with problems, which become more complicated when she meets a man. At the same time, she is making a film on exemplary mothers. Finishing the film would seem to provide answers for her personal life. 1 videodisc (86 min.)

MEDIA 10-586

 

Barakat! Enough! 2008

Caecile Vargaftig, Djamila Sahraoui, ENTV Algeria, Films d'ici (Firm), and First-Run Features (Firm)

The story of two women. Emel is a Westerner whose husband, a journalist, is missing - perhaps kidnapped or even killed. Khadija is an older woman who has lived through the country's decades-long struggle. Together they search for Emel's husband. 1 videodisc (94 min.)

MEDIA 10-1970

 

Berlin Jerusalem c2003

Amos Gitai, Lisa Kreuzer, Rivka Neuman, Agav Films, Channel Four (Great Britain), Facets Video (Firm), and Pina Bausch Dance Company

This moving drama of the birth of Israel focuses on two women - Else Lasker-Schuler, a German poet, and Tania Shohat, a Russian revolutionary. They meet first in Berlin, where utopian ideals and fear of the Nazis force their escape to Palestine. Re-united in Jerusalem, they confront a harsh reality in the city idealized in their dreams. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

MEDIA 10-942

 

Caramel Sukkar banat c2008

Nadine Labaki, Rodney Al Haddad, Jihad Hojeily, Yasmine Elmasri, Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisčle Aouad, Adel Karam,  Filmes des Tournelles, and Séville Pictures

A Beirut beauty salon becomes a treasured meeting place for several generations of women who meet there daily. The women come from various walks of life, to talk, seek advice and confide in one another. Each has their own quirks and problems that they must deal with. 1 videodisc (96 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2723

 

Chahar shanbah suri Fireworks Wednesday 2008, 2006

Jamal Sadatian, Asghar Farhadi, Mani Haghighi, Hadiyah Tihrani, Taraneh Alidousti, Hamid Farrukh nizhad, Pantah a Bahram , Matin Haydarniya, and Facets Video (Firm)

All of Tehran is preparing to celebrate the traditional New Year with the festival of fire, which falls on the last Tuesday night before the official New Year begins. A young woman named Rouhi is employed by a young couple to clean their house. Sweet and naive, Rouhi is engaged to be married, but her innocence is shattered when she finds her employers' household in crisis over accusations of infidelity. 1 videodisc (98 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2993

 

Do zan Two women 1998

Tahminah Milani, Niki Karimi, Mohammad R Foroutan, and Atila Pesiaini

Chronicles the lives of two women attending architectural school at Tehran University during the first years of the Islamic Republic. 1 videodisc (96 min.)

MEDIA 10-138

 

Dokhtaran khorshid Daughters of the sun 2004, 2000

Maryam Shahriar, Altinay Ghelich Taghani, Soghra Karimi, Hossain Alizadeh, and Facets Video (Firm)

Amanagol, the daughter of a poor rural family in Iran, becomes "Aman" when her father shaves her head, disguises her as a boy, and dispatches her to another village to work weaving carpets. Proficient at the job, "Aman" is nonetheless exploited by the owner and isolated from all those around her. Her secret becomes jeopardized when a co-worker falls in love with her. 1 videodisc (92 min.)

MEDIA 10-603

 

Et maintenant, on va o©£? W halla' la wayn c2012

A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village. 1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.)

MEDIA 10-5210

 

Etz Limonc c2009

Habib Shehadeh Hanna, Hiam Abbass, Eran Riklis, Ali Suliman, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Suha Arraf, Bettina Brokemper, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre, Michael Eckelt, IFC Films, Mact Productions, RIVA Films, and Heimatfilm (Firm)

A drama based on the true story of a Palestinian widow who must defend her lemon tree field when a new Israeli Defense Minister moves next to her and threatens to have her lemon grove torn down. 1 videodisc (106 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2348

 

Faat Kine 2000

Ousmane Sembčne, Wongue Mbengue, Venus Seye, Mame Ndoumbé, Ndiagne Dia, Mariama Balde, Awa Sene Sarr, and Tabata Ndiaye

The deceptively light domestic drama of Faat Kine, a gas station operator, and unwed mother of two, who climbs the ladder of success in a male dominated field. 1 videcassette (121 min.)

MEDIA 2-5725      10-2243

 

Fatma 2004?

Ahmed Badrakhan, Umm Kulthum, Anwar Wagdi, Suleiman Naguib, Mimi Chakib, and Arab Film Distribution

"A poor nurse falls in love with the son of one of her wealthy patients. Abandoned by her husband while pregnant, she must fight her husband's wealthy and powerful family in court"--Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.)

MEDIA 10-324

 

Flame 200-?, 1998

Dramatization of the role of women fighters in the Zimbabwean liberation struggle, and of the abuses committed against women and peasants in the military and in Zimbabwean society at large. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

MEDIA 10-4701

 

Gabbeh 2005

Muhsin Makhmalbaf, Khalil Daroudchi, Abbas Sayahi, Shaghayeh Djodat, Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami, Sanay e Dasti, MK2 Productions, and New Yorker Video (Firm)

"A folkloric carpet (Gabbeh), picturing a man and a woman riding away on horseback, is the prized possession of an elderly nomadic couple. When they ... wash it ..., a beautiful young woman ... emerges from the carpet to ... reveal the secret of the carpet. Once held hostage by the endless restraints of the family that fashioned the carpet, she reveals that the secret...lies within the mysterious black-clad rider on the white horse. Month after month, season after season, he had followed her family from afar, always present, always waiting, howling to her songs of love--longing for her to run away with him."--Container. 1 videodisc (75 min.)

MEDIA 10-941

 

ha-Kayits shel Aviha 2005, 1988

A film about a Holocaust survivor who immigrates with her daughter to the newly founded Israeli state. Aviya is a spunky 10 old year girl who, like her mother, is a survivor in the face of persecution . 1 videodisc (91 min.)

MEDIA 10-4443

 

Harem suare c2003, 1999

Tilde Corsi, Gianni Romoli, Ferzan Özpetek, Marie Gillain, Alex Descas, Serra Yilmaz, Haluk Bilginer, Medusa Pictures, Medusa Film, R & C Produzioni (Firm), Films Balenciaga (Firm), Afs Film, Strand Releasing (Firm), and Strand Releasing Home Video (Firm)

In Baghdad in the early 1900's, a young woman rises up through the ranks of power within the Ottoman Empire. She and a eunuch plan an elaborate scheme for the release of the female slaves. 1 videodisc (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-1261

 

Haverim shel Yanah Yana's friends 2001, 1999

A trio of love stories takes place in an apartment building in Tel Aviv as its tenants are forced to stay in the safety of the building during the Scud attacks of the Persian Gulf war. 1 videodisc (92 min.)

MEDIA 10-3994

 

Hufshat kayits My father my lord 2008, 2007

A woman is caught in the middle of the struggle between her husband, a respected rabbi, and her son, who is questioning his religion. A holiday meant to help the family reconnect is brought to a dramatic and tragic climax. 1 videodisc (72 min.)

MEDIA 10-4264

 

Inch'Allah dimanche Inch'Allah Sunday c2006

Philippe Dupuis-Mendel, Yamina Benguigui, Fejria Deliba, Zinedine Soualem, Marie-France Pisier, Amina, Fellag, Antoine Roch, Stella Gregorz-Quef, Marc Marmier, Malika Khelfa, Nadia Ben Rachid, Film Movement (Firm), Bandits Longs (Firm), and ARP Saelection (Firm)

Film about the "family reunion," the French government's euphemism for a 1974 law allowing Algerian wives to rejoin their husbands working in France. Strong-willed Zouina parts tearfully from her mother in the port of Algiers; once in France, she and her three small children are at the mercy of her mother-in-law and confused by the strange customs of their local grocer and garden-obsessed neighbor. The radio is her only window on life and on the women of this new country. 1 videodisc (98 min.)

MEDIA 10-1744

 

Jodįi-e Nįder az Simin 2012

"Set in contemporary Iran, the film is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer's-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents' home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader. When Nader hires a young woman to asist with his father in his wife's absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage."--Container. 1 videodisc (123 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3821

 

Kadosh Sacred 2000

Eliette Abécassis, Amos Gitai, Michael Propper, Yael Abecassis, Yoram Hattab, Sami Hori, and Meital Barda

The story of two Hasidic sisters living in the Mea Shearim area of Jerusalem. Rivka and her husband are deeply in love, but he obeys his rabbi father and divorces her after 10 childless years of marriage. Rivka's sister Malka loves a man who has left Hasidism after joining the army, but accepts the marriage her parents have arranged to the rabbi's assistant. 1 videodisc (117 min.)

MEDIA 10-89

 

Kan ya makan Bayrut (qissah najmah) il etait une fois Beyrouth (histoire d'une star) 200-?/ 1995

Jocelyne Saab, Philippe Paringaux, Roland-Pierre Paringaux, Michčle Tyan, Myrna Makaron, Emile Accar, Balcon Productions, and Arab Film Distribution

Two young girls of the war generation, Yasmin and Leila, are in search of Beirut's past glory. When they meet an elderly film enthusiast with a secret store of Lebanese films, they persuade him to screen his collection for them. So begins an initiation into the myths and images of Beirut, but the girls want cold figures and facts, war babies indifferent to the memories evoked. 1 videodisc (101 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2731

 

Kandahar 2003, 2001

Muhsin Makhmalbaf, Niloufar Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Sadou Teymouri, and Hoyatala Hakimi

Nafasm an Afghan-born Canadian journalistk, returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister, who, overcome with grief after being injured by a landmine and her despair over the Taliban's oppression of women, has vowed that she will commit suicide at the time of the next solar eclipse, only three days away. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

MEDIA 10-204

 

Khvab gah-i dukhtaran Girls dormitory 2005

Iraj Tahmasbi, Majid Modarrisi, Hamid Modarrisi, Muhammad Husayn Latifi, Baran Kosari, Majid Salehi, Sadegh Safaei, and Negar Javaherian

Roya who has just finished high school is thinking of going to college. After passing entrance examinations she gets accepted into a recently founded university. The university is situated in a far away province. Her parents oppose to their daughter studying and living apart from them. Finally Roya manages to get their approval and leaves and leaves with her best friend Shirin. They enter the university and find out the Dorm is not ready yet and they have to spend some time in a provincial house. The land lady Sakine rents a room to them and gets them their necessary equipment and asks them to be careful with their communications. She tells them not to enter the abandoned building next to her house because jinns live there. The girls curisity to see jinns takes them inside the the building and there they are faced with strange things including a lunatic named Ghobad whom every one believes is a harmless creature. Royas curiosity brings changes to Gobads character. In one rainy night Gobad murders the land lady and attack Roya this involves the police and uncovers the secrets of murders of many young girls. Now Gobad's only concern is to find Roya and kill her. 1 videodisc (98 min)

MEDIA 10-414

 

Moolaadé 2004

Ousmane Sembčne, Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Helene Diarra, Films Domirev (Firm), and New Yorker Films

To escape the ritual of "purification" organized every seven years, four young girls flee their village and find protection with Collé, but their flight sends the local population into turmoil. 1 videocassette (124 min.)

MEDIA 10-2447     2-7181

 

The nightingale's prayer 2004, 1959

Barakat, Fatin Hamama, Mazhar Ahmad, Abdel Alim Khattab, Mimi Chakib, Amina Rizk , Taha Husayn, and  Arab Film Distribution

"This compelling tale of love and betrayal, set in the upper Egyptian countryside, follows the story of Amna as she plots her revenge on the engineer who destoryed her family's honor. [The Nightingale's Prayer is] a gripping portrait of a courageous young woman's rebellion against tradition and poverty"--Container. 1 videdisc (126 min.)

MEDIA 10-323

 

La noire de Black girl 2005, 1965

Ousmane Sembčne, Mbissine Thérčse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinck, Momar Nar Sene, Robert Fontaine, Abdoulaye Ly, Albourah, Films Domirev (Firm), and New Yorker Video (Firm)

In La noire de ..., a Senegalese maid goes to the Riviera with her employers and gains a new perspective on what it means to be African outside of Africa. A story of exile and despair. Borom Sarret follows a cart driver as he meets an unfortunate array of people in Dakar. 1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.)

MEDIA 10-671

 

The nouba of the women of Mount Chenoua 2007?, 1977

Assia Djebar, Algerian Television, and Women Make Movies (Firm)

Returning to her native region 15 years after the end of the Algerian war, Lila is obsessed by memories of the war for independence that defined her childhood. In dialogue with other Algerian women, she reflects on the differences between her life and theirs. In lyrical footage she contemplates the power of grandmothers who pass down traditions of anti-colonial resistance to their heirs. 1 videodisc (115 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2652

 

A perfect day Yawmon akhar 2008 2005

Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Julia Kassar, Ziad Saad, and Facets Multimedia (Chicago, Ill.)

Claudia and her son, Maleks' morning turns sour when the topic of conversation turns to the family's patriarch. Claudia's husband and Malek's father has been missing since the war, and they debate over whether to have him declared legally dead. 1 videodisc (88 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2403

 

Persepolis 2008

Marc-Antoine Robert,  Xavier Rigault, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, Marjane Satrapi, 2.4.7. Films, France 3 cinaema (Firm), Kennedy/Marshall Company, Franche Connection Animations (Firm), Diaphana (Firm), Celluloid Dreams (Firm), Sony Pictures Classics (Firm), Sofica Soficinema (Firm), Sofica Europacorp (Firm), Centre national de la cinaematographie (France), and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)

In 1970s Iran, Marjane "Marji" Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study. This change proves an equally difficult trial for Marji as she finds herself in a different culture loaded with abrasive characters and profound disappointments that deeply trouble her. Even when she returns home, Marji finds that both she and her homeland have changed too much and the young woman and her loving family must decide where she truly belongs. 1 videodisc (95 min.)

MEDIA 10-1619

 

Prendre femme 2009, 2004

Marek Rozenbaum, Itai Tamir, Jean-Phillipe Reza, Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz, Gilbert Melki, Simon Abkarian, Transfax Films, Zanagar Films, and Sisu Home Entertainment, Inc

A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her husband and her brothers, who want her to stay married and leave behind the notions of being loved and free. 1 videodisc (99 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2893

 

Rachida 2004?

Yamina Bachir, Ibtissem Djouadi, Bahia Rachedi, Rachida Messaoui En, Zaki Boulenafed, ARTE France, La Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma, Studio Canal+, and First-Run Features (Firm)

A young, self-assured elementary school teacher becomes a target for terrorists upon refusing to place a bomb in her school. 1 videodisc (100 min.)

MEDIA 10-499

 

Roozi keh zan shodam The day I became a woman c2005, 2000

Marziyah Mishkini, Muhsin Makhmalbaf, Fatemeh Cheragh Akhar, Shabnam Toloui, Azizeh Sedighi, Shirin Neshat, Makhmalbaf Film House, and Olive Films

Three portraits of women at three stages of life in Iran: a nine-year-old girl is told she can no longer play with boys because she is now a "woman", a young wife who enters a bicycle race against her husband's wishes, and an elderly woman who gains money and the freedom to do what she wishes with it. 1 videodisc (73 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2887

 

Satin rouge 2003, 2002

Raja Amari, Alain P Rozančs, Pascal Verroust, Dora Bouchoucha Fourati, Hiam Abbass, Hend El Fahem, Maher Kammoun, Monia Hichri, ADR productions, Nomadis Image (Firm), Zeitgeist Films, Agence national de promotion de l'audiovisuel, and Arte France cinéma (Firm)

A Tunisian widow embarks on a journey of self-discovery when she investigates a suspected liaison between her headstrong teenaged daughter and a cabaret musician, and is drawn into the world of cabaret belly dancers and nocturnal pleasure-seekers. 1 videodisc (95 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2623

 

Scheherazade, tell me a story 2009?

"A female talk show host in Cairo stirs up political controversy when she focuses her on-air discussions on the topic of women's issues"--imdb.com. 1 videodisc (132 min.)

MEDIA 10-4032

 

Shalosh imahot Three mothers c2007, 2006

The story of Egyptian-Jewish triplets, from their birth in Alexandria in 1942 to their lives in Israel in 2006. 1 videodisc (106 min.)

MEDIA 10-4285

 

Sof ha'olam smola Turn left at the end of the world c2007, 2004

A tiny Israeli village in the Negev Desert is home to people from both Morocco and India. They have poverty in common and little else. Two families will be brought together by the unlikely friendship of daughters. There is the sultry Moroccan, Nicole, and the thoughtful Indian, Sara. The women's youth and lust for freedom overcome cultural prejudices. For this community and these two friends, the road to harmony is full of twists and turns. 1 videodisc (108 min.)

MEDIA 10-4269

 

Soraida a woman of Palestine 2004

Soraida Abed Hussein, Tahani Rached, National Film Board of Canada, and Women Make Movies (Firm)

"Soraida is a Palestinian woman living in Ramallah, in the occupied territories. In this city under siege and a strict curfew, she fights her own battle: despite the military occupation, violence and oppression, she is determined not to lose her humanity ... Soraida wonders how to reconcile the multiple facets of her identity -- as a woman, a mother and a comitted Palestinian. As a patriot, she is tempted to join the struggle, while as a mother, she is responsible for her two children and must keep her distance. The questions that haunt Soraida, her family and her neighbors take us to the heart of human experience: How to preserve one's humanity in the midst of oppression? How to resist being consum[ed] by hate and anger, caught up in the cyucle of victim and victimizer? How to love one's homeland without laying exclusive claim to it"--Publisher's website. 1 videodisc (52 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 10-972

 

Sous les bombes taht al-qasf 2008

Hervé Chabalier, Philip Aractingi, Michel Léviant, Claude Chelli, Nathalie Leyerdecker,  Nada Abou-Farhat, Georges Khabbaz, Capa Cinéma, Rhamsa Productions, and Film Movement (Firm)

"Dunring a cease-fire in the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006, Tony, a Christian tax driver, brings Zenia, a Shiite woman frmo Beirut, to the heart of the conflict in the country's south. While they scour the rubble of loca towns for Zeina's son, they discover that despite their very different background they have much in common. During their trip through the desolate countryside, the two travelers develop a deep bond as a response to the death surrounding them. "Under the Bombs" was shot entirely on location during the summer of 2006, in the middle of the ruins of war-torn Lebanon. Aractingi only hired two professional actors, the rest are real refugees, journalists, soldiers, etc..., playing themselves."--Container. 1 videodisc (98 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2724

 

The Syrian bride Kalah ha-Surit 2006, 2004

Suha Arraf, Eran Riklis, Bettina Brokemper , Hiam Abbass, Makram Khouri, Clara Khoury, Ashraf Barhoum, Eyad Sheety, Cyril Morin, Karen Durbin, Neue Impuls Film, Eran Riklis Productions, Mact Productions, Arte France cinaema (Firm), Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Arte (Firm), Studio Canal+, HOT (Firm), Koch Lorber Films, and Koch Entertainment (Firm)

Mona's wedding day may be the saddest day of her life. Once she crosses the border between Israel and Syria to get married, she will never be allowed back to return to visit her family in the Golan Heights. 1 videodisc (97 min.)

MEDIA 10-1317

 

They call me Muslim a documentary 2006

Diana Ferrero and Women Make Movies (Firm)

Two contrasting profiles of Muslim women who have made opposite decisions about wearing the traditional Muslim headgear, the Hijab.  One in France has chosen to wear the Hijab in defiance of French Law.  The other skirts the law in Iran, by wearing it as little as possible. 1 videodisc (27 min.)

MEDIA 10-971

 

Unwanted woman 2006

Tahminah Milani, Muhammad Nik bin, Marila Zareie, Amin Hayaie, Parsa Pirouzfar, Iranian Film Society, and Irmovies.com (Firm)

Searing tale about the struggles of women in modern-day Iran.  Poor Sima puts up with her philandering and abusive husband, Ahmad.  He is so blatant with his indiscretions that he asks Sima to cover for him when he plans a trip with his girlfriend Saba.  In an Iran where unmarried couples can be arrested for fraternizing in public, Ahmad needs Sima to pretend that Saba is her cousin.  Sima and the couple's young daughter accompany Ahmad and Saba on their trip - a humiliating situation for the devoted wife and mother.  But, a surprising turn awaits the trio when they stop in a town where a man has just murdered his wife for her alleged affair. 2 videodiscs (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-716 &10-717

 

Va, vis et deviens Live and become c2008, 2005

An impoverished Ethiopian mother pushes her Christian son to pretend to be a Jewish orphan, so that he may emigrate to Israel as part of Operation Moses. As a teen, Shlomo falls in love with a white girl, Sarah, whose father is racist and disapproves of him. Later they marry, with his secret still unknown to her. When Shlomo finally tells Sarah of his past, the strains on their relationship are too great. Will they be able to reconcile his past and their present or future? 1 videodisc (149 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3803

 

Viva Laldjérie 2007, 2004

Nadir Moknčche, Zoe Zurstrassen, Nathalie Mesuret, Bertrand Gore, Lubna Azabal, Biyouna, Nadia Kaci, Jalil Naciri, Abbes Zahmani, Film Movement (Firm), Sunday Morning Productions (Firm) , and Arte France cinéma (Firm)

"Three women: a mother, her daughter, and a prostitute have been living in a hotel in the center of town amid creeping fundamentalism. Goucem, the daughter, has chosen a modern, emancipated life, spending steamy weekends in nightclubs. Fifi, her faithful friend, prostitutes herself under the thumb of a local protector. Papicha, the mother, eats pizzas in front of the television, torn between fear and nostalgia"--Container. 1 videodisc (111 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2661

 

Women in struggle 2005

Buthina Canaan Khoury, Majd Production (Firm), and Women Make Movies (Firm)

Four Palestinian Arab women who had each spent time in prison for participating in the militant Palestinian struggle in Israel share their experiences and discuss the aims of their cause. 1 videodisc (59 min.)

MEDIA 10-974

 

Women without men Zanan bidun-i mardan 2011

Susanne Marian, Martin Gschlacht, Philippe Bober, Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari, Pegah Ferydoni, Arita Shahrzad, Shabnam Toloui, Orsi Tóth, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shahrnush Parsi pur, Essential Filmproduktion, Coop99 Filmproduktion, Parisienne de production (Firm), and IndiePix (Firm)

"Set against the political turmoil of Iran's 1953 coup d'etat, 'Women without men' tells the story of four disparate women whose lives converge in a mystical orchard on the outskirts of Tehran"-- Container. 1 videodisc (100 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2980

 

Yesterday 2006

Darrell Roodt, Anant Singh, Helena Spring, Kenneth Kambule, Leleti Khumalo, Harriet Lenabe, HBO Films, and Home Box Office (Firm)

After falling ill, Yesterday learns that she is HIV positive. With her husband in denial and a young daughter to tend to, Yesterday's one goal is to live long enough to see her child go to school. Set against the awesome, harsh landscapes of South Africa. 1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.)

MEDIA 10-1339